Barnaby Joyce under the Microscope, page-155

diligent; this thread is not about your values and professional conduct, it's about those of Barnaby Joyce.

As a very senior and experienced male MP with a young family and loving wife, Joyce is reported to have engaged in an extra-marital affair with a female staffer; impregnating her.

Questioning in Parliament about the removal of that female staffer from his DPM's office and her re-deployment elsewhere to even better paid public jobs as well as an apartment he has shared with her have already energised this matter and distracted the attention of government from what it is supposed to be doing.

Warren Truss's call for the impact of Joyce's Scandal to be resolved swiftly and decisively telegraphs the pain being felt by those Joyce purports to represent. The damage being caused to brand NP will take yonks to repair even if Joyce slithers off into the long grass overnight.